Who funds black hole research?

We count 126 funded black hole projects, active between 2020 and 2032, from 4 funders. The most came from EU · ERC (63 projects), NSF · MPS (27 projects) and EU · MSCA (23 projects). The median award is $1.5M, across the 122 of 126 projects that list an amount.

Funded projects

126

Funders

4

Median award

$1.5M

Open calls now

0

Top funders of black hole research

Projects whose title or summary mentions black hole. Median award: of the projects that list an amount, in US dollars; “—” when fewer than 3 do.

Open black hole funding calls

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Funded black hole projects

A sample, latest start first, at most three per program.

• Tidal Disruption Events: A New Black Hole Census
  EU · ERC · €1,998,750 · ends 2030
• Unveiling the Black Hole Populations of Milky Way Globular Clusters
  NSF · MPS · $490,197 · ends 2029
• WoU-MMA: The GRavitatiOnal-Wave Paleontology CataLog (GROWL): Breaking Simulation Silos To Study Compact Object Mergers Across Cosmic Time
  NSF · MPS · $507,993 · ends 2029
• Collaborative Research: Frameworks: ML4GW, a machine learning ecosystem for gravitational wave data analysis
  NSF · CISE · $973,138 · ends 2029
• Host Galaxies of Dwarf AGN with Rubin Legacy Survey of Space Time and Euclid
  UKRI · STFC · £444,045 · ends 2029
• Solving the "host galaxy problem" for tidal disruption events
  UKRI · STFC · £427,730 · ends 2029
• Understanding ultraluminous X-ray sources using the eROSITA all-sky survey
  UKRI · STFC · £466,276 · ends 2029
• Probing supermassive black hole evolution with pulsar timing arrays
  UKRI · £430,407 · ends 2029
• Systematically characterising the exotic material properties of weakly collisional plasmas
  UKRI · UKRI FLF · £591,235 · ends 2029
• Geometric Analysis in Mathematical General Relativity, PDE and Quantum Physics
  NSF · MPS · $300,000 · ends 2029

How we count

Funded projects come from public award records (NIH RePORTER, NSF, EU CORDIS, UKRI Gateway to Research, Wellcome, the Gates Foundation, DOE, NASA and USDA NIFA) whose title or summary matches “black hole or black holes”. NIH lists each budget year separately; one project counts once. Amounts are as the funder lists them; medians use only projects that list one, in US dollars. Open calls and forecasts are from our listings of October 28, 2026. A project can mention a topic without being mainly about it, so treat the counts as a guide to who funds the area.